Nobody in Beyonce's immediate family or obviously she herself participated in the making of this book so it was largely based on alleged "sources". She has also written and presented fashion programs in the United Kingdom for Channel 4 ( She's Gotta Have It and Slave). As one labors through the story, it becomes increasingly clear that Taraborrelli included all of the musical chairs and legal messes to prove a central point: Mathew was relentless in his pursuit to make his daughter a star, and, even as a tween, Beyoncé was determined to achieve the same goal, and neither of them blinked, even if it meant burning through a rotating cast of amateur managers and disposable girl group members.

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She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny’s Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. After watching Homecoming ( the first time) I felt a little bit depressed because I realized that I wasn't working as hard as I should be to achieve my goals. The author definitely has a good handle on Beyonce's mom, Tina, and she is an inspiration in herself. She has used her branding, merchandising, and sales expertise to manage a number of business ventures with well-known celebrities and athletes in the publishing, aviation, food, retail, and sports industries.

Motherhood and family are themes that appear throughout Beyoncé’s later work, with songs such as “Blue” and “Lovehappy”, taken from Beyoncé and Jay Z’s 2018 joint album EVERYTHING IS LOVE, both referencing her children. It will be his second television miniseries, the first airing on NBC in 2000 and based on his book, Jackie, Ethel, Joan. Messages of self-empowerment and inner strength define her wardrobe as much as they electrify her songs. I was actually reading it like it a trashy tabloid or a having a conversation with a noisy old woman in her neighborhood, talking bout “GIIIIIRL, you ain’t never gone guess what I saw this morning.Inspired by Benbow’s incredible work, we wanted to put together our own Beyoncé-related reading list, featuring works cited by the singer, as well as those we believe make perfect bedfellows for Queen Bey’s back catalogue, to set you up for the RENAISSANCE tour.

I guess since it’s a book about her life it’s connected to what made her who she was, but it spent a little *too* much time on it in some parts. Though the readers did not receive this, what they did get was a timeline of not only Beyonce’s work life, but her personal life as well. In a way, and quietly, Tina Knowles is like the quiet heroine of this book, and Beyonce the avowed heroine, who was made into something by her own raw talent and her dad's aggressive sales style, but then who made herself again into her own creation of who she wanted to be and not a projection of others, including her dad.Since this is a biography for a very famous celebrity, it is hard for an author to keep everyone happy.